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Tangible benefits of community recycling programs for environmental conservation

What are the tangible benefits to be achieved when a community becomes involved in a recycling program? The first and most obvious benefit of recycling, as this paper will reflect, is the responsible reclaiming of the materials that can be reused through technology.

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Logical fallacies in political discourse and media commentary

Hasty Generalization: On the FOX news channel's "Follow the Money" with Eric Bolling (June 22, 2011), talking heads were discussing the article on Al Gore in the latest Rolling Stone Magazine. Monica Crowley said Gore has to keep his "Inconvenient Truth gravy train" going.

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Hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative energy source for Singapore

The research proposal here offers a rationale for a more intensive investigation of the prospects for adoption of hydrogen fuel cells as a primary sources of alternative fuel in Singapore.

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Major challenges facing the resort and hospitality industry

Resort industry has been facing a myriad of challenges of late accompanied by the same challenges hitting hard on the tourism industry as well since these two are interdependent and work hand in hand with each other. There are major challenges that the resort industry faces and are as below;

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Renewable energy and passive design in residential carbon reduction

One of the largest environmental and economic concerns of the current era is the use of carbon-producing energy production methods to provide most of our energy needs, from powering our factories to making our cars run to providing our homes with heat and light.

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Alternative energy strategies for reducing tourism industry emissions

Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world. In 2010, international tourist arrivals increased by approximately seven percent, to 935 million arrivals ("World Tourism Organization," n.d.). This figure doesn't include the millions of arrivals for national tourism.

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Human causes of global warming: carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases

In the past twenty (20) years, human society has consumed and emitted yearly total emissions of about 6 billion metric tons of "carbon dioxide equivalent" gases worldwide, according to National Geographic (2011).

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Launching an organic, palm-oil-free Nutella alternative

Nutella is one of the most popular 'comfort foods' in Europe. However, many European consumers have expressed concern about the fact that Nutella contains hydrogenated palm oils.

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Black Elk Speaks: life story of an Oglala Sioux medicine man

This book is about the life and development of an Indian medicine man, Black Elk. From a historical perspective the life of Black Elk is significant as he was present at the famous he Battle of the Little Big Horn and he survived the Wounded Knee Massacre1890.

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Challenges facing environmental managers in the modern era

The humanity has experienced an unprecedented level of scientific and technological progress in the last two hundred years. The progress, however, has been achieved with a heavy price.

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